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other flight medicine is prefcribed to a 
poor countrey fellow, it mull be the pro- 
duce of the Indies, fo that they cannot 
afford to purchafe it. Hence people ab- 
hor the thoughts of employing a phyfici- 
an or an apothecary. 
l 9‘ 
The ignorance of many for reign plants . Hence 
we are uncertain whether thofe which are 
brought to us be genuine or Ipurious -■> and 
hence alfo their genera being unknown, we 
are uncertain about their vertues. 
To this head may be referred the fea laven- 
der , the myrobalan , the ftarry annifeed , the 
bnlfam of Copaiva , the balfam of Peru , the 
gum animus caraun<e, elemi , the gum rojins 
of myrrh , bdellium , fagapenum , the aloes 
woody calambac k . 
20. 
The ufual cujlom in apothecaries Jhops of pro- 
viding only drugs of quick fale . Thus they will 
not procure fome whofe vertues are nowa- 
days well known, for fear they fhould lye up- 
* Hence appears one of the advantages amongft many 
others that may arife from the voyages of the difciples of Lin- 
naeus into the remoteft parts of America, and Aha, from 
whence many of our drugs come. 
